Happy Fourth!

This past week was absolutely wonderful!!! Full of fun festive things for the Fourth of July! and of course tons of miracles!!! 

Sister Esplin and I set a goal to see all the members in our area and this past week we met SO many of them! We are seeing lots of finding miracles!

This past Sunday was an AMAZING day! First off we were able to see Daniel and Jessica before church and have a lesson. They are still doing great! And second it was fast and testimony meeting! I have always enjoyed hearing everyone's testimony. I particularly liked these two: a little boy said "I'm grateful that I'm Mormon" and another person said, "Isn't it remarkable that thousands of people today are saying 'Jesus is the Christ'?" What beautiful testimonies! After church we had a lesson with a family that is a member referral. The same member that referred Daniel and Jessica: Brother Komers! This family is really special to me! The Cokers! So the Komers were fostering a little boy and that little boy was the Cokers. Well now the Cokers have him back but they are still in good communication with the Komers. And Brother Komers being the great member missionary he is, invited them all to church! So the Cokers have been going the past 6 weeks! and just this past week we were able to have a lesson with them in the Komers home! (sidenote: Brother Komers has only been a member for 5 years... and has 6 children that are adopted- 5 of them siblings... and the kids all took the missionary lessons and got baptized, pretty cool right?) The whole situation is really special because it reminds me of my family! Well anyways we had a lesson with the Cokers and it went really well! I even got a little teary eyed. The spirit was so strong! And Brother Komers bore such a powerful testimony of how the gospel has blessed his life. Last Sunday, Mary Coker came up to us and told us her daughter wanted to get baptized and everyone told her to come talk to us! Her little girl is SO excited! And Mary and Danny, the parents, are getting baptized as well! All of Brother Komer's friends are preparing to be baptized July 23rd! What a great day that will be for Brother Komers to see all his friends, that he loves, join the church :) I am just so grateful to be a part of this! To be an instrument in God's hands. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!

On Friday we went to this new place Torchy's for lunch! They have tacos and it was SO good!

On July 2nd we had a Stake Activity for the Fourth! There was such a great turnout! Daniel and Jessica came! That is Daniel holding up the baby! The baby is his friend, Brother Komer's baby!

That was also the day that I met President and Sister Mansell! Some of the missionaries invited them and they came! We met their three kids as well! They are really nice!

Happy Fourth of July! We just partied with all the missionaries that day! Grilled hot dogs! Had lots of food!

Played some games! and sports as well!

And we couldn't stay out for the fireworks this year but Sister Esplin and I did some poppers! And saw a couple fireworks from our apartment! It was such a fun day :)

Just this past week I started the Book of Mormon over focusing on prayer. And the cool part is my family is doing it with me! I like how at the very beginning Lehi prays! and he sees a vision and then testifies to all the people of the things he learned. The people get angry at him and don't listen. Then Lehi receives the revelation that he needs to leave Jerusalem. It all started with a prayer! Just like Joseph Smith! One thing I noticed was just how often Nephi and Lehi turned to God. Their first source of help was Heavenly Father. True to the Faith says, "As we make a habit of approaching God in prayer, we will come to know him and draw ever nearer to him."

Hope yall have a blessed week! Love all yall! :)

All my love,

Sister Jackson

There have been some really cool thunder and lightning storms this past week! I LOVE the sky!